QED Sustainable Urban Developments created the homes using a kit of re-usable parts based around re-purposed shipping containers.

A spokesman for the team said the location was chosen because it was a previously disused brownfield site that attracted fly-tipping and antisocial activity.

On homelessness, Ross Gilbert, managing director at QED Sustainable Urban Developments, said: "In London the problem is particularly acute and many of the available development spaces are complex brownfield sites which are difficult to access and develop.

"For Marston Court we were able to work with Ealing Council to bring vacant brownfield land back into productivity to deliver ready to live in accommodation, providing a sustainable, robust, affordable and flexible solution."

As well as the houses, the site has a play area, laundry room and management office.

Inside the studio home for homeless families

MP Bob Blackman, sponsor of the Homelessness Reduction Bill, said: "There is an acute shortage of suitable housing and far too many people ending up in situations which can lead to them becoming homeless.

"That is why I have been working to significantly reform England’s homelessness legislation through the Homelessness Reduction Bill.

An Ealing Council spokesman did not comment on whether initial plans had been altered, but responded: "We wrote to residents in 2015 to give them a chance to view and comment on proposals to build temporary modular housing for families on the site of disused garages."

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